release date: 22 September 2023 on Jazzland Recordings
«Ritualised choral chants and skronky electric guitar add textures and lustre, subverting possible expectations of an album whose principal instrument is the humble accordion. It may be called Avant Folk but it’s so much more than that.» – Sid Smith, Prog Magazine
release date: 30.06.2023 via Jazzland Recordings
… an impressive and thoroughly riveting album …[the] distinctive vocals are haunting in all senses of the word ★★★★ BBC Music Magazine
Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir is a versatile and innovative composer, guitarist and vocalist from Oslo’s jazz scene. As an artist, she tours the world, and has had collaborative projects with musicians in India, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Iceland and New York, among others. She is currently a composer with Tingingsverket (commissioned music) for Vossa Jazz’s 50th anniversary in 2023, contributing her work “I”.
release date: 10.03.2023 on Jazzland Records
Balans, Harald Lassen‘s fourth album, is a fascinating self-portrait of an improviser who finds freedom in a good song, a songwriter who invites listeners and fellow musicians to explore what he has created, and an artist who understands that the only valid taste is the personal.
release date: 24.02.2023 on Jazzland Recordings
Since forming in 2018 RYMDEN has established itself as one of the leading piano trios to ever emerge from the Nordic Jazz scene. All three members bring with them long-confirmed and lauded histories as innovators in jazz: Berglund and Öström via the Esbjörn Svensson Trio and their own projects (Tonbruket and Magnus Öström Group respectively); Wesseltoft via his New Conception of Jazz and other projects.
release date:21.10.2022 on Jazzland Records / Punkt Edition
In 2020, the Norwegian duo of Inge Weatherhead Breistein (saxophone) and John Derek Bishop [aka Tortusa] (live sampling) performed a series of five concerts in five separate churches along the west coast of their native Norway. With the aim of exploring both these sites’ unique acoustic profiles and their unique historical resonances, the pair has selected ten shorter etudes from
release date:14.10.2022 on Jazzland Recordings / Punkt Edition series
Wesseltoft / Schwarz return with a new selection of tracks, DUOII, demonstrating that while neither acclaimed jazz composer and keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft nor electronics maestro and producer Henrik Schwarz could be described as predictable, as a duo they are absolutely mercurial. Their natural affinity and symbiotic musical relationship seem to provide both with equal amounts of inquisitive, experimental and creative energy, and all without sacrificing their accessibility.
Jazzland Recordings release BEADY BELLE’s new album, Nothing But The Truth on CD/DL on the 29th April 2022.
Funky soul backbeats, irresistible grooves, timeless electronic elements, angelic harmonies and that perfect voice delivering emotional lyrics with absolute sincerity: it can only be Beady Belle.
release date: 15.04.2022 on Jazzland Recordings
wholly dud-free Bortenfor excels in catalyzing beauty from relatively simple sources. ★ ★ ★ ★ MOJO
Comforting beauty is the consistent, satisfied aim. ★ ★ ★ JAZZWISE
Jazzland Recordings release MARIDALEN’s second album, Bortenfor on CD/DL on the 15th April 2022. The album includes the singles Portrommet and På Nye Eventyr
release date: 25.02.2022 via Jazzland Recordings
Jazzland Recordings release BUGGE WESSELTOFT’s Be AM on CD/DL on the 25th February 2022. The album precedes a solo concert at Kings Place, London, in May.
On “Be Am“, Wesseltoft has allowed his creative impulses to wander where they may – no preset rules to govern the composition and production, no obligations to use or not to use electronics, not even a will to be totally alone. This is pure playing and composition, where the music speaks freely by whatever means it will.
release date: 18.02.2022 via Jazzland Recordings
With THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU, the Johan Lindvall Trio continues its work within the jazz tradition. The dream continues. What does it really mean to dream of jazz? Yes, it may be a bit about nostalgia or about finding a kind of personal doorway into a tradition. Because even though the concept can be questioned, jazz exists, lives and develops. The trio’s first album NO CITY, NO TREE, NO LAKE (2019) received rave reviews and was mentioned in Dagsavisen by Espen Løkeland as: “(…) a smacker of an album. One of the best so far this year. ”
